About the role
Joining our Logistics team as an Operative in Despatch you will play a vital role in ensuring our customers get the correct orders on time and at the same high quality they have come to expect. you will be given the opportunity to train and develop throughout our clear progression pathways. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with Warehouse experience but wants to develop it further, or someone who just fancies a change in direction! For this role, it is essential that a candidate has a Counterbalance Forklift Licence.
This is a FTC opportunity for 6 months.
The day to day role will involve:
- Loading and unloading products using counterbalance
- Scanning, wrapping and palletising products.
- Performing final quality checks on products.
- Using electric pallet trucks, counterbalance and reach vehicles.
- Recording and rotating chilled food products.
- Ensuring paperwork and delivery orders are completed and recorded.
- £13.75 per hour (paid weekly) + £2.00 UNS for hours worked between 18:00 and 06:00
- Earn £250 for every friend or family member you refer for a job with us*
- Training and development from day one, secure contract, g uaranteed hours and opportunities for overtime
- Subsidised staff canteen
- Free on-site parking
*T's & C's apply
Working hours
Sunday-Thursday 21:30-06:30
What are we looking for?
- Counterbalance Forklift License. This is ESSENTIAL and needs to be evidenced on your CV.
- The ability to work well within a team and communicate effectively
- Good attention to detail and a flexible attitude to tasks
- Experience within a production/manufacturing environment is desirable but not essential as full training will be provided
Who are we, and what do we do?
You may not have heard of us, but there’s a good chance you’ve enjoyed our products. Avara Foods is one of the UK’s leading food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the country’s major supermarkets and well-known restaurants.
We own and manage our entire supply chain, from farms to factory and all the way to the customer door – meaning we have careers that cover a whole range of functions. We have major processing sites across England and Wales, and an agricultural network of over 350 farms, spanning from North Yorkshire to the South Coast and Wales.
A little about our Telford site:
Our advanced manufacturing site in Telford, is one of our main processing facilities, processing up to 1.5 million birds per week. There are over 1,200 talented people employed at our Telford site, helping us to deliver high quality products to our customers and making the business a trusted leader in fresh foods.
We’ve recently invested £2.3 million in technology and equipment, making it one of the most advanced food manufacturing facilities in the UK.
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